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Islamic literature

Sometime about 800 the Arabs had learned the art of papermaking from the Chinese. Thenceforth, cheap writing material was available, and literary output was prodigious. The
Fihrist (“Index”), compiled by the bookseller Ibn al-Nadīm in 988, gave a full account of the Arabic literature extant in the 10th century. It covered all kinds of literature, from philology to...